Let Claude search Gumtree listings in the UK by keyword, place and price
To let Claude search Gumtree listings, install Wield and describe what you want, where and at what price. For example: "Search Gumtree for a road bike near Manchester under £300, newest first." Claude runs the gumtree.com/search-listings recipe in your own browser. It returns listings with title, price, location, description, photo and link. No login is needed.
Gumtree Search Gumtree classifieds in the UK
Read-only, no loginRuns in your browser only
Parameters (9)
What you need
- An MCP client such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex.
- A Chromium browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera or Chromium) with the Wield extension.
wield-mcp. Runnpx -y wield-mcp init. The install page and the quick start cover the details.
You don't need a Gumtree account to search.
Ask your agent
Give the keyword, the place and the price range. Example:
You: Search Gumtree for a road bike near Manchester under £300, newest first.
Claude calls find_recipe to find the recipe, then run with the parameters. For the order of results, ask for "newest first", "cheapest first" or "most expensive first". Those map to newest, price_low and price_high. Leave the order out to get the site's default relevance order.
Params: what to put where
Your agent fills these in from your sentence.
| Param | Required | What to put in it |
|---|---|---|
query | yes | What to search for, such as road bike or sofa. |
location | no | A town, an area or a postcode, such as london, manchester or SW1A 1AA. The default uk searches everywhere in the UK. |
distance_miles | no | Radius around the location: 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, 50, 75 or 100. |
min_price and max_price | no | Price limits in pounds. |
category | no | all (default), for-sale, cars-vans-motorbikes, property, jobs, services, pets or community. |
sort | no | relevance (default), newest, price_low or price_high. |
page | no | Results page. The default is 1. |
include_featured | no | true keeps Featured (paid) ads, marked. The default is false. |
Gumtree applies a price range only within a category. If you set a price and no category, the recipe uses for-sale.
What comes back
The result has query, location, total, page and listings. total is the count from the page heading, such as "1,779 ads for road bike in London". It can be null when the page shows no count.
Each listing has id, title, price_gbp, price_text, location, description, featured, urgent, image and url. featured marks paid placements, and urgent marks ads the seller flagged as urgent. Open url to see the full ad on gumtree.com.
What leaves your computer
The recipe makes one request to www.gumtree.com, for one results page. The request goes out from your browser with the session you already have. Nothing passes through wield.run. Wield logs the request on your computer only, with method, host, path, status and timing. It never logs bodies or query values. Telemetry is off by default.
Limits
- Gumtree's bot management answered server requests with its own status after six requests in about ten minutes. Expect server health checks to be blocked, so this recipe runs only in your own browser.
- If Gumtree shows a check, Wield stops with
site_challengeand asks you to solve it in your own tab. - The recipe is read only. It never replies to a seller.
- The recipe has no status row yet. The example passed one live check. Other parameter combinations are untested.
Gumtree's terms, in plain words
Gumtree's robots.txt has no rules for AI agents, as checked on 7 November 2026. It has no group for Claude-User, ClaudeBot or anthropic-ai, and no Content-Signal line. We have not reviewed Gumtree's terms for automated access yet. The recipe is user-initiated: you start each search, each call runs one search in your own browser, and it is not for bulk collection. The recipe makes no purchases. Replies to sellers stay on gumtree.com. This is not legal advice. Read Gumtree's terms yourself before you use this recipe in any other way.
FAQ
Can Claude reply to a seller?
No. The recipe only searches. Open the listing's url to reply to the seller on gumtree.com.
Why does the search use for-sale when I give a price?
Gumtree applies price filters only within a category. When you set a price and no category, the recipe uses for-sale. Set category yourself to search another one.
Does it need a login?
No. Search works without a Gumtree account.
Does it return featured ads?
Not by default. Ask for include_featured to keep them. They are marked with featured.